Women proverbs

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◆ A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

- Eleanor Roosevelt99

◆ Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

- Oprah Winfrey99

◆ Women are made to be loved, not understood.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

- Phylicia Rashad99

◆ I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

- Little Richard99

◆ Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

- Coco Chanel99

◆ There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

- Kat Graham99

◆ I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

- Marilyn Monroe99

◆ Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

- Bill Cosby99

◆ You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

- Erica Jong99

◆ The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

- Anna Quindlen99

◆ A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

- Coco Chanel99

◆ Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

- Yul Brynner99

◆ I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

- Audre Lorde99